Ready Steady Cook

I'll give you a can of Hearts of Palm. It came in a Christmas hamper a few years ago. I have no idea what to do with it.

a bottle of Mead ,a gift from Cornwall ....been in the cupboard over 10 years

I gather Chris Froome who is in Tour De France cycle race as a craving for octopus curry.
Mick

A tin of sardine and tuna paté, given as a gift from holiday and regifted to me.?

I have a jar of quails eggs given in a Christmas hamper which I can't really fancy and have been unable to give away even though still in date.

Bottle of sloe gin, several different mustards, tin of prunes.

Course meat pate! as I am a vegetarian (and my friend who gave me the hamper knew this) this was a strange gift?

I would like to give a box of chocolates that someone gave me for my recent birthday - they look delicious and it's best I get them out of the house before I give in and eat them all

A bottle of dessert wine, I don't know anyone who would drink it !!

Me, me, me!

And me!

(Rolling sleeves up)

Right - just fry a chopped onion and some chopped spuds, then stir in the meat pate, pour over the kangaroo soup. Add a tin of peas from someone else's cupboard. Pot mess. Main course done.

Whilst it's simmering, serve a starter of the fish pate garnished with quail's eggs.

Several slugs of sloe gin needed after that lot!

Um. As for the mead ... not sure. If you can't drink it, boil it up with some arrowroot as a sauce and pour over slices of gingerbread for a pud?

Dolce Latte anyone? I seem to have acquired a bottle and have no idea what it's for. It's kind of fudge coloured....

I have a tin of spam that DH bought because he might fancy it - and now doesn't.

Gosh, I read slugs in sloe gin in JackyB's post. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there wasn't a jar of that in the back of my larder from The Harrod's Peasant Food Hamper c1975. DH's boss used to give us a hamper every year full of really unappetising things.

Hugh Fearlessly EatsItAll once prepared battered slugs in chilli and tomato sauce. Staff at River Cottage said: We would heartily recommend this dish ... if you left out the slugs.

Cheating a bit here and offering something from the current Fortnum and Mason Burlington Hamper. Sultry Smoky Nuts which I imagine are like posh Nobby's Nuts. I will leave you all to ponder how a nut gets to be sultry. It's probably the weather.

3/4 bottle or plum vodka. Our new neighbours gave it to us at Christmas and my husband had the bright idea of adding it to prosecco. We were watching The Crown at the time and there is a whole episode I have no memory off! First time in 62 years I was actually drunk. Never again, it can go!

A bottle of Pernot which we bought for the self-run bar at our wedding 49 years ago.

Minimoon, you can add hearts of palm to salads. They are very popular in Brazil and called "palmito" in Portuguese.

A bottle of Royal Mint Chocolate Liqueur that I bought in Germany in 1982. It is very well travelled, having accompanied me to Hong Kong and 6 further house moves. It now has pride of place at the back of my drinks cabinet. Not sure if I could actually let it go now!

I can't add anything I'm afraid but I have really enjoyed reading these posts!

Oh, I think I'll try the gingerbread with Mead sauce. Sounds great!

Some of this sounds yummy. I love sloe gin.......and mead.

You can send the Pernot my way! With soda water it's my fave! Makes me squiffy rather quickly!

A rather rusty tin of dried eggs from WW2!